Women's Basketball

No. 8 Judges defeat No. 17 Bates to claim Tip-Off Tourney title

Nov 19, 2005

WALTHAM, Mass. - The Brandeis University women's basketball team
won their Tip-Off tournament for the fourth year in a row today as
the Judges, ranked No. 8 in the most recent d3hoops.com poll and
No. 12 by the WBCA, dispatched with the Bates College Bobcats (No.
17 d3hoops.com, No. 10 WBCA) by a 73-62 margin. In the consolation
game, Mount Holyoke College defeated Salve Regina, 70-61.

Brandeis (2-0) withstood a furious Bates (1-1) charge early in the
second half. Trailing by eight, 33-25, at the intermission, the
Bobcats opened the stanza with a 12-5 run over the first 5:38. They
climbed to within one at 38-37 on a jumper by senior Annie Whiting
(Contoocook, N.H.). The Judges responded beautifully after a
timeout, holding Bates without a field goal over the next five
minutes while scoring 12 unanswered points, capping the run on a
3-pointer by sophomore Courtney Tremblay (Peabody, Mass.) with
10:29 on the clock. Brandeis never trailed by less than 10 points
the rest of the way.

Brandeis was paced by junior forward Caitlin Malcolm (Windsor
Locks, Conn.), who scored a game-high 21 points and pulled down
eight boards to lead the Judges. She hit 13-of-16 from the free
throw line to make up for a four-for-11 performance from the floor.
In the process, Malcolm earned MVP honors at the Brandeis Tip-Off
for the second year in a row. Three other Brandeis players scored
in double figures as senior Christine Clancy (Yamrouth, Maine)
added 16 points on eight-of-14 from the floor, sophomore Jaime
Capra (Old Bridge, N.J.) had 11 and senior guard Amanda DeMartino
(Toms River, N.J.) contributed 10 and four assists. The Judges
outrebounded Bates, 50-36, including 27-14 in the second half.
Brandeis also owned a 22-6 scoring margin from the free throw
line.

Bates got 20 points and game-highs of nine rebounds and eight
assists from sophomore guard Sarah Barton (Portsmouth, N.H.).
Barton hit eight-of-22 shots from the floor along with a pair of
trifectas. The Bobcats added 14 points each from Whiting and junior
Mary Hart (Bradford, Mass.), who drained four-of-six from beyond
the arc. Rookie Val Beckwith (Woburn, Mass.) added 11 points in her
second collegiate game.

In addition to Brandeis's Malcolm, who won the tournament MVP for
the second year in a row, the All-Tournament team consisted of
Capra and Clancy from Brandeis, Jonee Billy from Mount Holyoke,
Barton from Bates and Lindsay Frederick from Salve Regina.